There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like. It is enough if he eats a cutlet. But he should do that.

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it.